The most popular nature books of 2020

Books about nature turn your attention to the living world. Forests, rivers, mountains, animals and the changing seasons are at the center of these novels, memoirs and essays. They are about wonder and loss, and about remembering that people are part of nature too. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Fire in Paradise
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Fire in Paradise

Dani Anguiano, Alastair Gee

Published 2020

272 pages

I Am the Storm
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I Am the Storm

Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. Stemple

Published 2020

32 pages

Wuhan Diary
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Wuhan Diary

Fang Fang

2020 · 2022 edition

416 pages

On Time and Water
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On Time and Water

Andri Snær Magnason, Lytton Smith

Published 2020

345 pages

A Fool's Hope
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A Fool's Hope

Mike Shackle

Published 2020

320 pages

Ghost Species
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Ghost Species

James Bradley

2020 · 2021 edition

288 pages

Our Only Home
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Our Only Home

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama, Franz Alt

Published 2020

176 pages

Bad Island
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Bad Island

Stanley Donwood

Published 2020

144 pages

Flooded
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Flooded

Ann E. Burg

2020 · 2022 edition

352 pages